The vibraphone is a musical instrument in the struck idiophone subfamily of the percussion family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is usually played by holding two or four soft mallets and striking the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibraphonist, vibraharpist, or vibist.

What does the word vibraphone mean?

: a percussion instrument resembling the xylophone but having metal bars and motor-driven resonators for sustaining the tone and producing a vibrato.

What does glockenspiel mean in English?

: a percussion instrument consisting of a series of graduated metal bars tuned to the chromatic scale and played with two hammers.